diff --git a/src/delegation/headless-executor.ts b/src/delegation/headless-executor.ts
index 2ceeaa62..bc3a0f55 100644
--- a/src/delegation/headless-executor.ts
+++ b/src/delegation/headless-executor.ts
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ export class HeadlessExecutor {
     }
 
     let runtimeEnvVars: NodeJS.ProcessEnv = {
-      ...stripAnthropicRoutingEnv({ ...globalEnv, ...settingsEnv }),
+      ...stripAnthropicRoutingEnv({ ...globalEnv, ...settingsEnv }, settingsEnv),
       ...(inheritedClaudeConfigDir ? { CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR: inheritedClaudeConfigDir } : {}),
       CCS_PROFILE_TYPE: 'settings',
       CCS_STRIP_INHERITED_ANTHROPIC_ENV: '1',
diff --git a/src/dispatcher/flows/settings-flow.ts b/src/dispatcher/flows/settings-flow.ts
index f54bbb41..07674e54 100644
--- a/src/dispatcher/flows/settings-flow.ts
+++ b/src/dispatcher/flows/settings-flow.ts
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ export async function runSettingsFlow(ctx: ProfileDispatchContext): Promise<void
   // sessions can still inherit model intent and other profile-scoped runtime flags.
   const settingsRuntimeEnv = stripBrowserEnv({ ...globalEnv, ...settingsEnv });
   const claudeRuntimeEnvVars: NodeJS.ProcessEnv = {
-    ...stripAnthropicRoutingEnv(settingsRuntimeEnv),
+    ...stripAnthropicRoutingEnv(settingsRuntimeEnv, settingsEnv),
     ...(inheritedClaudeConfigDir ? { CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR: inheritedClaudeConfigDir } : {}),
     ...webSearchEnv,
     ...imageAnalysisEnv,
diff --git a/src/utils/shell-executor.ts b/src/utils/shell-executor.ts
index 4b236a90..62e0af04 100644
--- a/src/utils/shell-executor.ts
+++ b/src/utils/shell-executor.ts
@@ -55,14 +55,32 @@ const TMUX_SYNC_ENV_KEYS = [
  * Used for nested settings-profile Claude launches where `--settings` already
  * defines the provider transport and the parent process should only lend model
  * defaults or effort hints.
+ *
+ * `preserveFrom`: if provided, routing keys present in this source survive the
+ * strip (with their values from `preserveFrom`). Settings-type profiles use
+ * this to keep routing/auth supplied by their own `settings.env` while
+ * dropping any routing leaked from the parent shell or `global.env`.
  */
-export function stripAnthropicRoutingEnv(env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): NodeJS.ProcessEnv {
+export function stripAnthropicRoutingEnv(
+  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
+  preserveFrom?: NodeJS.ProcessEnv
+): NodeJS.ProcessEnv {
   const result: NodeJS.ProcessEnv = {};
   for (const key of Object.keys(env)) {
     if (!ANTHROPIC_ROUTING_ENV_KEY_SET.has(key.toUpperCase())) {
       result[key] = env[key];
     }
   }
+  if (preserveFrom) {
+    for (const key of ANTHROPIC_ROUTING_ENV_KEYS) {
+      if (
+        Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(preserveFrom, key) &&
+        preserveFrom[key] !== undefined
+      ) {
+        result[key] = preserveFrom[key];
+      }
+    }
+  }
   return result;
 }
 
@@ -240,7 +258,7 @@ export function execClaude(
     ? { ...baseEnv, ...claudeLaunchEnv, ...envVars, ...webSearchEnv }
     : { ...baseEnv, ...claudeLaunchEnv, ...webSearchEnv };
   const effectiveMergedEnv = stripInheritedAnthropicRoutingEnv
-    ? stripAnthropicRoutingEnv(mergedEnv)
+    ? stripAnthropicRoutingEnv(mergedEnv, envVars ?? undefined)
     : mergedEnv;
 
   // Strip Claude Code nested session guard env var to allow CCS delegation
diff --git a/tests/unit/targets/settings-profile-browser-launch.test.ts b/tests/unit/targets/settings-profile-browser-launch.test.ts
index 73d04f8c..afe7ada1 100644
--- a/tests/unit/targets/settings-profile-browser-launch.test.ts
+++ b/tests/unit/targets/settings-profile-browser-launch.test.ts
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ fi
   printf "anthropicBaseUrl=%s\n" "$ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL"
   printf "anthropicAuthToken=%s\n" "$ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN"
   printf "anthropicApiKey=%s\n" "$ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"
+  printf "anthropicApiKeySet=%s\n" "\${ANTHROPIC_API_KEY+x}"
   printf "anthropicModel=%s\n" "$ANTHROPIC_MODEL"
   printf "anthropicSonnet=%s\n" "$ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL"
   printf "maxOutputTokens=%s\n" "$CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS"
@@ -231,6 +232,7 @@ exit 0
           env: {
             ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL: 'https://api.z.ai/api/anthropic',
             ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN: 'profile-token',
+            ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: '',
             ANTHROPIC_MODEL: 'gpt-5.4',
             ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL: 'gpt-5.4',
             CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS: '12345',
@@ -269,9 +271,14 @@ exit 0
       expect(result.status).toBe(0);
       const launchedEnv = fs.readFileSync(claudeEnvLogPath, 'utf8');
       expect(launchedEnv).toContain('stripAnthropic=1');
-      expect(launchedEnv).toContain('anthropicBaseUrl=');
-      expect(launchedEnv).toContain('anthropicAuthToken=');
+      expect(launchedEnv).toContain('anthropicBaseUrl=https://api.z.ai/api/anthropic');
+      expect(launchedEnv).toContain('anthropicAuthToken=profile-token');
       expect(launchedEnv).toContain('anthropicApiKey=');
+      expect(launchedEnv).toContain('anthropicApiKeySet=x');
+      expect(launchedEnv).not.toContain('global-routing-token');
+      expect(launchedEnv).not.toContain('parent-routing-token');
+      expect(launchedEnv).not.toContain('global-api-key');
+      expect(launchedEnv).not.toContain('parent-api-key');
       expect(launchedEnv).toContain('anthropicModel=gpt-5.4');
       expect(launchedEnv).toContain('anthropicSonnet=gpt-5.4');
       expect(launchedEnv).toContain('maxOutputTokens=12345');
diff --git a/tests/unit/utils/claudecode-env-stripping.test.ts b/tests/unit/utils/claudecode-env-stripping.test.ts
index 165314b2..767609ca 100644
--- a/tests/unit/utils/claudecode-env-stripping.test.ts
+++ b/tests/unit/utils/claudecode-env-stripping.test.ts
@@ -295,6 +295,61 @@ describe('CLAUDECODE environment stripping', () => {
     expect(result.PATH).toBe('/usr/bin');
   });
 
+  it('stripAnthropicRoutingEnv preserves routing/auth keys from preserveFrom on the non-proxy settings path', () => {
+    const settingsEnv: NodeJS.ProcessEnv = {
+      ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL: 'https://ollama.com',
+      ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN: 'profile-token',
+      ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: 'profile-api-key',
+      ANTHROPIC_MODEL: 'minimax-m2.7:cloud',
+      OTHER: 'keep',
+    };
+    const globalEnv: NodeJS.ProcessEnv = {
+      ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL: 'http://127.0.0.1:9999',
+      ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN: 'global-stale',
+    };
+
+    const merged = stripAnthropicRoutingEnv({ ...globalEnv, ...settingsEnv }, settingsEnv);
+
+    expect(merged.ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL).toBe('https://ollama.com');
+    expect(merged.ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN).toBe('profile-token');
+    expect(merged.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY).toBe('profile-api-key');
+    expect(merged.ANTHROPIC_MODEL).toBe('minimax-m2.7:cloud');
+    expect(merged.OTHER).toBe('keep');
+  });
+
+  it('stripAnthropicRoutingEnv with empty preserveFrom strips all routing keys', () => {
+    const result = stripAnthropicRoutingEnv(
+      {
+        ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL: 'http://inherited',
+        ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN: 'inherited-token',
+        ANTHROPIC_MODEL: 'claude-opus-4-7',
+      },
+      { ANTHROPIC_MODEL: 'claude-opus-4-7' }
+    );
+    expect(result.ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(result.ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(result.ANTHROPIC_MODEL).toBe('claude-opus-4-7');
+  });
+
+  it('stripAnthropicRoutingEnv preserveFrom only emits keys present in preserveFrom', () => {
+    const env = {
+      ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL: 'http://inherited',
+      ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN: 'inherited-token',
+    };
+    expect(stripAnthropicRoutingEnv(env, { ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL: 'https://ollama.com' })).toEqual({
+      ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL: 'https://ollama.com',
+    });
+    expect(stripAnthropicRoutingEnv(env, { ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN: 'profile-token' })).toEqual({
+      ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN: 'profile-token',
+    });
+    expect(stripAnthropicRoutingEnv(env, { ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: 'profile-api-key' })).toEqual({
+      ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: 'profile-api-key',
+    });
+    expect(stripAnthropicRoutingEnv(env, { ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL: '' })).toEqual({
+      ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL: '',
+    });
+  });
+
   it('stripAnthropicRoutingEnv removes routing/auth env case-insensitively while preserving model vars', () => {
     const input: NodeJS.ProcessEnv = {
       anthropic_base_url: 'http://127.0.0.1:8317/api/provider/codex',
@@ -451,7 +506,10 @@ describe('CLAUDECODE environment stripping', () => {
     expect(env.ANTHROPIC_SMALL_FAST_MODEL).toBe('gpt-5-codex-mini');
   });
 
-  it('execClaude strips routing env reintroduced by explicit settings-profile overrides', () => {
+  it('execClaude preserves routing env supplied via explicit settings-profile envVars', () => {
+    process.env.ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL = 'http://parent-leaked';
+    process.env.ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN = 'parent-leaked-token';
+
     execClaude('claude', ['--help'], {
       CCS_PROFILE_TYPE: 'settings',
       CCS_STRIP_INHERITED_ANTHROPIC_ENV: '1',
@@ -464,9 +522,9 @@ describe('CLAUDECODE environment stripping', () => {
 
     expect(spawnCalls.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
     const env = spawnCalls[0].options?.env as NodeJS.ProcessEnv;
-    expect(env.ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL).toBeUndefined();
-    expect(env.ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN).toBeUndefined();
-    expect(env.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(env.ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL).toBe('http://127.0.0.1:8317/api/provider/codex');
+    expect(env.ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN).toBe('reintroduced-routing-token');
+    expect(env.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY).toBe('reintroduced-api-key');
     expect(env.ANTHROPIC_MODEL).toBe('gpt-5.4');
     expect(env.ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL).toBe('gpt-5.4');
   });
@@ -650,6 +708,49 @@ describe('CLAUDECODE environment stripping', () => {
     expect(env.CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS).toBe('12345');
   });
 
+  it('headless executor preserves profile routing env for non-proxy settings-profile delegation', async () => {
+    writeConfigWithAutoUpdatePreference(false);
+    const ccsDir = path.join(process.env.CCS_HOME as string, '.ccs');
+    fs.writeFileSync(
+      path.join(ccsDir, 'ollama-cloud.settings.json'),
+      JSON.stringify(
+        {
+          env: {
+            ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL: 'https://ollama.com',
+            ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN: 'settings-ollama-token',
+            ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: '',
+            ANTHROPIC_MODEL: 'gemma4:31b-cloud',
+            CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS: '12345',
+          },
+        },
+        null,
+        2
+      ) + '\n',
+      'utf8'
+    );
+    const projectDir = path.join(ccsDir, 'project-headless-ollama-cloud');
+    fs.mkdirSync(projectDir, { recursive: true });
+    process.env.CCS_CLAUDE_PATH = 'claude';
+    process.env.ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL = 'http://127.0.0.1:8317/api/provider/codex';
+    process.env.ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN = 'parent-routing-token';
+    process.env.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY = 'parent-api-key';
+
+    const result = await HeadlessExecutor.execute('ollama-cloud', 'latest AI chip news', {
+      cwd: projectDir,
+      permissionMode: 'default',
+      timeout: 1000,
+    });
+
+    expect(result.success).toBe(true);
+    expect(spawnCalls.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    const env = spawnCalls[0].options?.env as NodeJS.ProcessEnv;
+    expect(env.ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL).toBe('https://ollama.com');
+    expect(env.ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN).toBe('settings-ollama-token');
+    expect(env.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY).toBe('');
+    expect(env.ANTHROPIC_MODEL).toBe('gemma4:31b-cloud');
+    expect(env.CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS).toBe('12345');
+  });
+
   it('headless executor rebuilds OpenAI-compatible bridge env from settings instead of inheriting stale parent routing', async () => {
     writeConfigWithAutoUpdatePreference(false);
     const ccsDir = path.join(process.env.CCS_HOME as string, '.ccs');